Meteor showers

In this photo taken with long shutter speed, a Perseid meteor sparks, while entering the earth's atmosphere as a man sleeps in Tripiti beach in Gavdos island, the southernmost point of Greece and Europe, early Sunday, on August 13, 2023. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]

The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend, sending bright trails of light streaking across the night sky.

With only a sliver of moon in the sky, conditions this year will be ideal for seeing lots of meteors.

According to experts, the light burst and loud noise heard from many locations in Istanbul on Aug. 8 that terrified locals was generated by the annual Perseid meteor shower.

The burst of light and loud sound seen from many points in Istanbul at around 2 a.m. on Aug. 8 caused panic, since the scenery was likened to the light explosion seen during the deadly Feb. 6 earthquakes.

Following the solar eclipse that occurred yesterday, Türkiye will enter a three-month period of meteor showers, in which the skies will turn into a colorful feast zone, an expert has said.

"There are some rare events happening in space in some special periods and this is one of them," Hasan Ali Dal, an academic from Ege University, said.

It’s meteor shower hour!

Ljubljana – The Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak tonight with meteors being most visible in areas without artificial lighting between 9pm and midnight or until the Moon overshadows them, the Cosmolab organisation has told the STA.

Тhe annual Lyrid meteor shower peaking this week with which the Meteor season is officially back.

In the first three months are "winter break" for falling stars lovers as relatively not much happens between the Quadrantid meteor shower in early January and the Lyrids.

In this picture with a long shutter speed stars move in the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower in the Pineios Lake near the village of Velanidi, Peloponnese, Greece, late Thursday. The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity being between Aug.

Stargazers were able to catch a glimpse of one of the biggest and best celestial light shows of the year as the Perseid meteor shower peaked over Turkey on Aug. 12.

Hundreds of shooting stars rained over the sky during one of the brightest astronomical displays.

Admiral Vasile Urseanu Astronomical Observatory of Bucharest has announced that on Tuesday and Wednesday nights those who look up to the skies will be able to see more shooting stars than normally. "On the nights of April 21/22 and 22/23, all those who look up to the skies will see more shooting stars than normally.